On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 10:10:54PM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin
wrote:
> +* Rename {xfree86,xorg}-common to x11-common -- the purpose of the package
> is to
> + provide the prerequisites for any X11 installation on a Debian system.
> + (For now, that includes the /usr/*/X11 symlinks, but the package will
> still be
> + useful -- if not the source of as many reverse dependencies -- even if the
> X11
> + installation moves to /usr.)I've used x-common for Ubuntu, and would prefer it if Debian could do the same; we don't need any more points of difference in our X implementations. x11-common would need a postinst that removed the /usr/*/X11 symlinks when X moves to /usr; x-common already provides this. > +* Decide whether to build liboldX or not. FWIW, I believe only one package in the entirety of Debian was using this (I got LaMont to check, and the number was low enough that it didn't matter; also, it's had eighteen years to update now).
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